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Science and Empire in the Atlantic World
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Science and Empire in the Atlantic World
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Science and Empire in the Atlantic World is the first book in the growing field of Atlantic Studies to examine the production of scientific knowledge in the Atlantic world from a comparative and international perspective. Rather than focusing on a specific scientific field or single national context, this collection captures the multiplicity of practices, people, languages, and agendas that characterized the traffic in knowledge around the Atlantic world, linking this knowledge to the social processes fundamental to colonialism, such as travel, trade, ethnography, and slavery.
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Index
A
Abreu, Aleixo de, 130
Absolutism, 11, 333, 336, 339
Académie des Sciences (Paris), 16, 55, 57–62, 64–65, 207, 318, 336
Academies:
see Scientific academies
Acosta, José de, 108
Actor–network theory:
see Metrology;
Latour, Bruno;
Measurement
Adams, John, 268
Adams, Julia, 337
Adanson, Michel, 269
Admiralty (British), 78, 262
Aepinus, Franz, 259
African and Afro-American knowledge, 5, 11–12, 19–21, 128, 210, 219, 263, 281–305, 292, 312, 320–326, 334, 341–342
(see also Afro-American religions;
Slavery and slaves;
Free blacks;
Obeah;
Occult knowledge;
Poisons;
Vodou)
Africans and Afro-Americans:
see Slavery and slaves
Afro-American religions, 20, 263, 283, 295–298, 300–301, 322–324
(see also Obeah;
Vodou)
Agriculture, 9, 17–18, 153–156, 160–164, 166–170, 181–182, 184, 210, 230, 232, 236, 238, 256, 260, 305
(see also Improvement;
Plantations)
Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 100, 109
Air quality, 62–63, 135,...
Table of contents
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- SECTION I Networks of Circulation
- SECTION II Writing the American Book of Nature
- SECTION III Itineraries of Collection
- SECTION IV Contested Powers
- Contributors
- Index